Flowers in the tea family (Theaceae) are bowl-shaped,with numerous anthers presenting large amounts of freely accessible pollen simultaneously.Species that flower mainly in winter and early spring are pollinated by be...Flowers in the tea family (Theaceae) are bowl-shaped,with numerous anthers presenting large amounts of freely accessible pollen simultaneously.Species that flower mainly in winter and early spring are pollinated by bees and/or birds.In the 1950s,beekeepers in China observed larval mortality if honeybees (Apis cerana) had foraged on the flowers of Camellia oleifera (Zhu,1957).展开更多
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文摘Flowers in the tea family (Theaceae) are bowl-shaped,with numerous anthers presenting large amounts of freely accessible pollen simultaneously.Species that flower mainly in winter and early spring are pollinated by bees and/or birds.In the 1950s,beekeepers in China observed larval mortality if honeybees (Apis cerana) had foraged on the flowers of Camellia oleifera (Zhu,1957).
